@chinmaygarde looking for some advice to make sure I'm heading in the right direction.

I assume I'd want to expand the sharing Dart API (flutter/plugins#21) to also take in a ui.Image (or some async wrapper of it) in the share method. Get its corresponding CanvasImage's bytes on the other side and then make a UIImage with it?

What is the actual use case you're trying to address? ui.Image represents a (possibly deferred) GPU-resident image. If you want to share images from storage (e.g., the user's photo gallery), there might not be a reason to make them GPU-resident. You might want something more like a file descriptor or some other handle to bytes (potentially not memory-resident at all).

Sorry, didn't mean to get you to answer on Sunday.

Thanks, that's the part I wasn't sure. I was trying to see if there were a central point that users already use to show images like ImageProvider that I can reuse to get bytes across in an efficient way to share everything from NetworkImages and stuff from the gallery.

It seemed like all the actual bytes were stored in ui.Image in common with ImageProviders. Might be easier in person. I'll come chat with you in the morning.

Sounds good.

@lukef mentioned this morning that Posse was likely to use/build share-sheet integration which would want to share images.

Posse is now tech'd up on Plugins so this is no longer blocking them. They currently believe they can build this themselves.

Sounds like Posse has a custom implementation that shares image files, though they'll still be interested in sharing image bytes.

+1 for this request.

The plugin should support sharing both local and network images along with text.

Checking to see if support to share both Text and Images is on the roadmap and possible timeline? We have an app we are developing which needs both.

Thanks.

ps: @Purus I have noticed that most plugins do not work in iOS with Swift 4 projects enabled.

This is the Error:

Launching lib/main.dart on iPhone X in debug mode...
Xcode build done.
Failed to build iOS app
Error output from Xcode build:
↳
** BUILD FAILED **
Xcode's output:
↳
=== BUILD TARGET Runner OF PROJECT Runner WITH CONFIGURATION Debug ===
The use of Swift 3 @objc inference in Swift 4 mode is deprecated. Please address deprecated @objc inference warnings, test your code with “Use of deprecated Swift 3 @objc inference” logging enabled, and then disable inference by changing the "Swift 3 @objc Inference" build setting to "Default" for the "Runner" target.
=== BUILD TARGET Runner OF PROJECT Runner WITH CONFIGURATION Debug ===
/Users/marco/Documents/Flutter Projects/plugins_playground/ios/Runner/GeneratedPluginRegistrant.m:6:9: fatal error: 'share/SharePlugin.h' file not found
#import <share/SharePlugin.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
Could not build the application for the simulator.
Error launching application on iPhone X.
Exited (sigterm)

Thanks.

any updates on this? @Purus

will this issue be address soon? @Purus - or is there any other way to share an image file with a flutter app?

Please, add support for sharing image or files, is hard to call specific api to who haven't experience with IOS for example. Like me lol.

+1 for the sharing images in Share plugin

Should this help? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44181343/how-do-i-share-an-image-on-ios-and-android-using-flutter

The answer from Simon has a Swift and Kotlin version.
The answer from Albert Lardizabal has Objective-C and Java version.

We put that functionality into a plugin: https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/esys_flutter_share.

final ByteData bytes = await rootBundle.load('assets/image.png');
await EsysFlutterShare.shareImage('myImageTest.png', bytes, 'my image title');

@d-wolf Thank you for your help, i will try it soon.

Any news?

Any News?

Waiting to be merged
flutter/plugins#970

share: ^0.6.5 has been tagged and published! (Feel free to reopen if needed)

(I'm going to reopen, because I see that part of the requirement was to share from bytes; flutter/plugins#970 is based on paths.)

Any plugin in which I can share an app deep link with the offline image preview (base64) ?

Any updates on the option to share from bytes?

Hey guys, I see that this was merged: flutter/plugins#970

But I can't seem to find Share.shareFile method using share: ^2.0.1 in master? Can anyone help me? Was this reverted?

@MiguelSOliveira Are you looking for Share.shareFiles?:

• https://github.com/flutter/plugins/blob/04cf809f3f10f48fa860f8ad2f343b93cc54b1c4/packages/share/lib/share.dart#L56-L68

Hey @ditman, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that one will work as I want to share a memory "File" type, and that one takes a path to a file instead.

The link I provided works because it takes a "File" type variable, which is exactly what I want.

@MiguelSOliveira take a look at what was finally merged, I think the code you want is:

Share.shareFiles(['${directory.path}/image.jpg']);

No need to instantiate the File to share it (?)

you're totally right @ditman, I have to store and write to the file anyways so it's physically in the temporary directory and I can just use that path. Thanks!

Any updates on the option to share from bytes?

It would be nice to have support for sharing from bytes.

Closing, as share is now deprecated in favor of share_plus.

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